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the homogenous turkis/beige of all your stock looks fab. That said, the 151 really needs a a set of wagons to pull as the 151s are essentially freight locos. 151s are one of my favourite world locomotives, and IMO looked best in turkis/beige

That's not a surprise as all the DRG-era steam locomotives had a similar appearance'

The German 'standard locomotive' (Einheitslokomotive) was the name given to standard classes of German steam locomotives (the Einheitsdampflokomotiven) built from 1925, following the creation of the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft to replace the former state railways such as Prussian and Bavarian.

Under a laudable policy, they used common designs standards and were built with standard design features and generally produced in large batches, often by several different manufacturer

Post war DB perpetuated this policy with standardised electric locos sharing parts and design features such as the 110 and 140.

Hi Gordon & Raymond, I am afraid i do not know all the fine Details of most of these Loks but I am learning slowly. I used to live In many places in Germany In my Childhood & then In Berlin & Saarbrucken In my working life I was very lucky In Berlin The Taxi Driver who picked us up everyday was a big fan of German Railways and when he found out I liked German trains he took me to a lot of the Model shops in West Berlin, Also I lived In Wetter and the REME Mess was right opposite the train so i used to watch them from the Snooker room window. Those were the days

We used to go on the overnight train on the way to our holiday destination in Yugoslavia. Probably done the trip about 30 times back then and I remember that every station we stopped for more than 10 minutes on the way in both Germany and Austria had a display of either Minitrix or Fleischmann in the main hall.

The end station was Villach HBF (Austria) and we always had to wait 4 hours for the next train to take us to Jesenice (Yugoslavia). We used to go into town and there was this almighty big model shop that had about everything in!

Also remember getting off the train in Emmerich where they have to swap loco's from NS (Dutch) to DB (German), running to the front to watch them changeover. Then running like mad to not miss the train…

They also used to add/remove carriages during the trip which was rather awkward when you was going for a walk through the train and had to run back to your cabin..

HI Everyone, As promised a small video of my New purchases BR23 with freight Nuclear Wagons BLS4/4 with 2 coaches and i thought i would show you the Glacier Express with full rake going up and down with no Effort at all. Babs

Thank you everyone I cannot claim I did all of it and the reasons why was I was In Hospital for surgery on the other side of the world and had to stay 2 months and my nice friend who did the Electrics so it was ready when i came back as i could not get around for nearly 6 months after I came back. It will be moved to the room upstairs and I will be making some alterations to It Ie removing the uncouplers on the 4 loops and then i will put some signals and maybe a small amount of Automation. & then when it is in its permanent place i will do the scenics.Food for thought Babs

HI Whiteswan How did you do that can you please tell me Thank you. Babs

The power of being a moderator has its benefits.

All I did was post the bit from the start of the "http through to ....mp4" bit as a direct link without any tags, just the whole text string and as it starts with http it automatically becomes a hyperlink.